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EPL Main Event – Day 3 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Sat, 2011-08-13 13:29
Adam Levy’s elimination in 7th place signaled the end of the 3rd day of the EPL’s Main Event. 18 players returned to the tables at the beginning of the day, with Sam Trickett leading the field into battle. His stack was the only one above the 1 million mark then, but it failed to help him make the final table. Out of chips, he was bounced in 11th place by Chino Rheem.
Trickett - despite his stellar day 2 performance - failed to get anything going on Day 3. He struggled until his large stack whittled away, and then he shoved all-in on a pair of 7s. Rheem made the call with pocket 9s and the board failed to bail Trickett out.
Trickett joined an illustrious gang on the rail: Justin Bonomo (busted in 18th), Hoyt Corkins (17th place) and Matt Glantz (14th place) were already there.
Eugene Katchalov bit the dust in 8th place too.
Adam Levy’s elimination in 7th place was quite a thing to behold: he had a full house against Chino Rheem, who then proceeded to river a better full house than his, to eliminate him from contention.
Levy’s elimination left 6 players in the books: Rheem, Gavin Smith, Huck Seed, Erik Seidel, Jason Mercier and Hasan Habib.
Thanks to the pro-heavy nature of the starting field, the final table will be quite an illustrious one: according to the global poker rankings put together by the Global Poker Index, two of the world’s three best tournament players will be there to duke it out for the title. The only one missing from the top 3 is Frenchman Bertrand Grospellier, who happens to lead the GPI list.
Hasan Habib was the one who managed to amass the largest stack going into the final table. He will start the final stretch of action with a stack of 1.6 million chips. Jason Mercier is currently second, with 1.49 million chips.
